Political Quotes

“I do join and commend the principal sponsors for their work product and for their many, many hours of labor devoted, together with staff, in preparing the amendment. I will ask some questions of my colleagues and I am certain they will see these in the spirit of constructive dialog. First, the joint DOD-DOE report on preparedness of the Government to respond to nuclear, chemical and biological incidents. That report, which was just issued recently--I think, in the last few weeks--recommended provided authority to establish a training program, authority to establish a chemical biological response team, and the establishment of a regional NBC stockpile, particularly for medical stockpiles and the like. Can the proponents of the amendment inform the Senate with respect to that report and the parallelism in the amendment and that report? Mr. President, I just learned of the report. It may well be that the sponsors have not had the opportunity to see it.”